Geoff Jenkins

Geoff Jenkins

Note:

A lot of these images are "raw", i.e. not cleaned up, filtered or otherwise messed with. For the digitals this means that I simply scaled, cropped and saved them. For the 35mm, it means just plain auto-correction on the scans. If there's an image you want, almost any basic graphics editor should be able to improve many of these pictures, or if you really want one, and can't do it yourself, ask me.

The cameras:

(a) [1998 Albums] Nikon CoolPix 900 digital camera. A fairly hi-res (1.3M pixel) compact camera. It has a 3x optical zoom, a 2x digital zoom, a decent speedlight, 900+ step AF, and is pretty intelligent, even in confusing light. It only came witha 4MB CF card (why?), but with an additional 32MB card, you can keep between 50 and 200 shots (depending on the compression level). A nice camera.

[Older Albums] Apple QuickTake 200 digital camera, essentially a low-res (640x480) point-and-shoot. Still, it has basic video capabilities, works decently in low light (no flash), and runs quite well on AA batteries. Quick and easy. Produces much better quality in bright light than in the dark (in bright light, it can use a smaller aperture, so avoiding the lack of AF).

(b) Canon Photura, a more advanced 35mm semi-compact. Capable of nice quality shots, but rather bulky and inconvenient to lug around all the time.

(c) Minolta Maxxum 7000i 35mm SLR, a very nice full-size SLR outfit, with a 35-80, a 50 and an 80-200mm lens set, as well as a low powered Minolta flash and a Metz hammerhead (anything but low powered). Again, not easy to carry around all day.

Films:

Fuji for color, Kodak T-Max for B&W, and Ilford XP2 (hence the funny sepia tones) for special purposes.

Scanner:

A decidedly clapped-out HP ScanJet IIcx

How to view and save the images:

There will be two main types of album up here, those containing just pictures and those with both stories and images. In the first case, the album should contain:

a) an index file, showing mini-copies of the files in the album

and/or

b) a list of the individual files, possibly with descriptions

NEW ALBUMS

Just click on the images you want, and your browser should open a larger (generally about 700x500) image of the same picture. To save a file:

[PC Users]: Right click on the image you want (not the thumbnail version, the big one)...

[Mac Users]: Click and hold down on the image you want...

...then, up should come a list of possible actions, one of which will be something like: "Save this image as...". Select that action, and then save the file to your local machine. Your browser should be able to open the file direct from the disk, or for almost any platform on the market there are numerous free/shareware/commercial image viewers.

OLD ALBUMS [Pre 1998]

Essentially, all you have to do (if you're using Netscape, Internet Explorer or any other graphical browser) is identify the images you want from the index file, and then click on the appropriate filename from the list of files. This will open up that particular image. To save that image, click on the opened picture and hold down the (left) mouse button. Up should come a list of possible actions, one of which will be something like: "Save this image as...". Select that action, and then save the file to your local machine. Your browser should be able to open the file direct from the disk, or for almost any platform on the market there are numerous free/shareware/commercial image viewers.

If the album contains text and images, then the small images embedded in the text should lead to full-size copies elsewhere. So, if you want to see the full size version of a particular picture, simply click on the small image, and a larger copy will immediately open. From that point, the effect is exactly the same as above.

I Want Bigger, Better Versions of the Images

The CoolPix takes 1.3M pixel images, which at minimal compression are about 500KB long (i.e. <3 to a floppy disk, or 2min+ per file to download overa 28.8 connection). The images are then resized (to 1000x800 for my use, and 700x500 for the web). I keep all 3 versions, which, for a typical file are 500KB, 120KB and 60KB long, respectively. Email me for any file you want a "bigger, better" version of.